Carter: Bush hurts prospects for peace

[deminks]

Saturday, August 05, 2006
By Ed Golder
The Grand Rapids Press

President Bush has pursued an "erroneous policy" that has fostered violence in the Middle East, said former President Jimmy Carter, who brokered the historic Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.

"In my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had in Washington has been the George W. Bush administration, which hasn't worked to bring a permanent peace to Israel," Carter said Friday during a stop in West Michigan.

The event occurred as tensions mounted between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Carter thinks the United States should work for an immediate cease fire between the factions, and the world community should concentrate on a long-term solution that would allow Lebanon to control its own territory.

But Carter is uncertain if Bush can pull it off.

"It depends on whether world opinion is strong enough to get the administration to change its erroneous policy, which has been to encourage the continuation of attacks on both sides."

http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-31/1154757917209590.xml&coll=6

[Erika]

1. W need to stop his war mongering

It's not working.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. What did he say to blair at G8

Stupid fuck thing Syria fault and need attack them to solve problemss :rofl:
He damn good problems solver
Go round shitting here and there
His shit all over the place
Afghanistan Iraq ...... Lebanon
He try N.Korea but they got BIG missle so run away like a wimp
Also try Taiwan/China whee also wimp out
:rofl: Bully the weak and shit on their head
Hmmm what fine President he make
Wonder why they hate Clinton maybe it is because make him look like shrimp
Wah maybe he want Title BIG in front like BIG DOG geee
Do not make sense me try BIG CHIMP? :rofl:
Nah dont fit him chimp yes but BIG geee he feel too small :rofl:
Damn cartoon.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Bush: "Yo, Blair"

and we got 2 more years of bleeding under this guy!

[Oversea Visitor]

4. You got 2 more years in the pit with him

Stay the course dig dig dig
Gee me thought getting out was up not down :rofl:

[mom cat]

12. Unfortunately, you can't stop fighting if you want to conquer the world.

Oh, there will probably be a cease fire after the US/Israel have destroyed yet another middle east country, but they will continue until We the People stop them!

[me b zola]

5. Pres Carter is diplomatic and classy

...I would have said bush* decimates prospects for peace.

[Oversea Visitor]

6. Decimates you being too kind

:rofl:
He is a walking distare for peace
Everything he do choas reign death follow and peace cries in sorrow.

[me b zola]

7. Aha!

Maybe I'm diplomatic and classy. :rofl:



For the record, I think that you are too, just in a humorous way :D




on edit, it's kind of funny to mis-spell humorous :rofl:

[Oversea Visitor]

8. My my

You learning how to laugh at yourself.
It is fun trust me.

Me too blunt speak my mind sometimes things I say hurt so I laugh and :rofl:
Makes talking more plesant :rofl:

[drone]

30. over

Pres Carter is way over the heads of this beer and barbeque group that got us into this fine mess. The repukes are good at stealing elections but they don't seem to have a clue on how to do their job.

[Maccagirl]

31. As P.J. O'Rourke wrote

"Republicans say the government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it."

Trust me, it's the only thing the man has ever said that I agree with.

[rodeodance]

9. Carter has the respect of many --which really gets to Bush's ego.

[patricia92243]

10. Oh yes. And the latest of other countires writing to PRES. CLINTON to try

to intervene withe Bush - must hurt Bush's ego even more.

[Catch22Dem]

13. Oh wow, got any links?

I'm going to go search now because I hadn't heard about this.

[patricia92243]

14. It was on CNN yesterday - and repeated later. I don't know if CNN provide

provides transcripts to link to. I know it is posted a couple of other places here at DU, but I don't know about links

Sorry ;(

[NEOBuckeye]

27. Carter shows Bush how a "Christian" President should act. n/t

[lanlady]

11. when Carter won the Nobel Peace prize--

--Bush snubbed him. Did not invite him to the White House, did not praise him publicly. So I'm glad to see Carter speak out against the snot-nosed brat in the Oval Office.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

15. Carter should be an example in peace negotiations.

Bush doesn't care about peace. He cares about getting Republicans elected and stock prices of companies that profit from his foreign policies. He's not a leader. He's a puppet.

[young_at_heart]

16. Why don't our Dem "leaders" stand behind their former president?

This man has earned his stripes and it galls me that more current politicians don't give him his due.

[ananda]

17. 40k more like 200k+ for civilians killed.

That 40k lower estimate is WAY too low.

[Barkley]

18. With Friends like these...

"In my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had
in Washington has been the George W. Bush administration,
which hasn't worked to bring a permanent peace to Israel."

- Jimmy Carter
(Nobel Laureate and former U.S. President)

[Hulk]

19. Carter is a hero....

The repugs have "villainized" Carter to the level of dirt. They mock him and refer to his days as chaos and confusion. The facts are we were cleaning up after the Vietnam fiasco, and his honesty was something this nation has never experienced, nor ever will experience again.
For this, he came closer to peace in the Middle East than any president before or after him. He was more honest with the American public than any president in history. He had moral fiber, but didn't make an issue of it. We had the worst inflation in history, but we had just finished with the Nixon era of lies, deceit and corruption. What might you expect?

[CottonBear]

20. President Carter is one of our greatest Americans ever.

I'm proud he's a fellow Georgian. I hope to meet him and Mrs. Carter before I die. They are true Christians and patriotic Americans. :patriot:

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[JoFerret]

21. Without doubt

He is also the most intelligent.

[PurpleChez]

33. As an adopted Georgian, I am often dismayed by the sheer numbers

of my rebel-fetishist w-sticker neighbors, but I have taken comfort that I live in the state that has produced Jimmy Carter, Ray Charles, and Little Richard, if nothing else. And Coke.

[bronxiteforever]

24. Don't forget his energy policy. We have forgotten his policy at

our peril. he was ahead of his times on that as well as the Middle East.

[NEOBuckeye]

29. It's sickening to think of what might have been

...Had Carter's energy initiatives been permitted to continue. Today, we'd be almost completely independent of oil and fossil fuels, and wouldn't be suffering for high gas prices because of Peak Oil and the greed of the Oil Magnates.

Carter started us down the right path, but then came Reagan, with Bush Sr and his alliance with the Saudis and Big Oil. The rest is history. Carter will yet be vindicated, however, as the greed of the Bushes and Big Oil have left us ill-prepared to face the energy crisis. The next president will be forced to dust off his old plans.

[beltanefauve]

25. And he was

our last "Washington outsider" to hold the position of POTUS. And the "establishment" of any stripe doesn't like outsiders. Notice what happened to Howard Dean in the primaries as an example.

And welcome to DU!

[Baselinereality]

32. Except For...

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. But, yeah, other than them, Jimmy Carter was the "last" Washington outsider this country has seen for a long time, I agree.

[Dulcinea]

22. Boy George is a "war president."

He has no interest in peace in the Middle East, or anywhere else his corporate backers can make a buck.

[struggle4progress]

23. ".. we should .. withdraw American troops from Iraq," he said. "I would ..

..... begin a major withdrawal .. this year."

[Maccagirl]

26. Preach it, Brother Jimmy!

My God if that man had Clinton's charm and oratorical skill no one would be able to lay a hand on him. If Clinton had just believed in his own principles, instead of thinking he had to "sell" every postion he had like a snake-oil salesman, he would have been unstoppable.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

28. President Carter speaks for me. Our most qualified candidate in '08.

I voted for him twice and would be honored to make the third time a charm.